What we call politics now and what most political writers write about is the empathy and the bonding and the word choice and the horse rights, and it has nothing to do with what's really happening to people's lives.
I'm sorry to say cancer can kill you, but it doesn't make you a better person.
Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, or killed by men. She then asked a group of men why they felt threatened by women. They said they were afraid women would laugh at them.
Guns do kill. Unlike cars, that is all they do.
There's been a lot of experience with torture in history. It doesn't work.
People in Midland are real nice folks: I can't prove that with statistics, but I know West Texas, and it's just a fact.
